I think this video is very useful to understand the new architecture.
In daily business i have very positive experiences with this. Especially as we had massive issues with fwm process at a customers installation, we often faced disconnects with SmartConsole and we were lucky that the changes were preserved and after being able to login again, we just continued from the point of the disconnect instead of re-configuring everything.
And as we are five admins here working on same policies simultaneosly, the new architecture is a great step ahead in comparison to earlier releases.
Good job, Checkpoint!
and now to something completely different - CCVS, CCAS, CCTE, CCCS, CCSM elite